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1 14| the way that He says to Aaron and Miriam, "And if there
2 21| life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.'' Whom, indeed,
3 10| accomplish, and has displayed His ability. Since, therefore, if God
4 22| predicate terminates in an abstract, not a personal noun) "we
5 23| Father. But, behold, with an abundance (of evidence) the Father
6 15| additional assertion, ex abundanti as it were: "No man hath
7 24| character that He wished to be accepted by them whenever He named
8 15| the Son Himself mortality, accessibility of whom the apostle testifies
9 15| of the light which was accessible, although it was not without
10 28| Clothed or Shod; it is only an accessory to a name. Suppose now that
11 26| not substances, but the accidents of the particular substance.
12 8 | the Father's, which He has accomplished, which He had known most
13 26| chapter, are only in strict accord with that single and prominent
14 27| character, there necessarily accrued to them severally their
15 15| indeed can see;" and he accumulates the description in still
16 11| we have a tolerably large accumulation of them in the various heads
17 1 | importunately urging false accusations against the prophets themselves
18 1 | desist from his purpose of acknowledging the said gifts. By this
19 20| their contention they only act on the principle of all
20 25| the Father (described as acting for the Father, although
21 5 | you are (by reciprocal action) producing thought by means
22 15| visible Son, he makes the additional assertion, ex abundanti
23 21| speaking as the Son. In His address to Nicodemus He says: "So
24 23| looked up to heaven, and, addressing the Father, said as the
25 12| QUOTATIONS FROM HOLY SCRIPTURE ADDUCED IN PROOF OF THE PLURALITY
26 28| and the latter is only an adjunct, predicable of Him from
27 16| been from the beginning administering judgment, throwing down
28 20| Godhead, and with the full admission of the Monarchy. For as
29 27| proper form. Now, if He admits not of being transfigured,
30 4 | impair it, on account of admitting the Son (to it), since it
31 12| Word, that He purposely adopted the plural phrase, "Let
32 26| His "Father" He Himself adores. When acknowledged by Peter
33 13| as "children of light," adoring and invoking Him who is
34 11| observe, that on my side I advance the passage where the Father
35 27| what we have previously advanced, because the Word of God
36 23| contributed nothing to his advantage. It was, then, the Son of
37 15| to the presumption of the adversary, (which pretended) that
38 22| likeness, conjunction, affection on the Father's part, who
39 29| fountain, yet the injury which affects the stream reaches not to
40 21| nor seen His shape;" thus affirming that in former times it
41 22| indeed seize the opportunity afforded them in these words to propound
42 7 | beginning of His ways;" then afterward begotten, to carry all into
43 19| angel or some subordinate agent sent to form external things,
44 3 | own monarchy by whatever agents he will. Nay more, I contend
45 5 | made second to Himself by agitating it within Himself.~
46 26| which must be interpreted agreeably to all other places, rather
47 26| MATTHEW AND ST. LUKE. THEIR AGREEMENT WITH ST. JOHN, IN RESPECT
48 28| ACCORDING TO ST. PAUL, WHO AGREES WITH OTHER SACRED WRITERS.~
49 7 | as the grammarians teach) air when struck against, intelligible
50 29| soiled with mire and mud, alhough it flows from the fountain
51 8 | sun. Nothing, however, is alien from that original source
52 13| Father and the Son, are alike to be invoked, I shall call
53 13| they are not expressed in allegories and parables, but in determinate
54 29| Scriptures," in order that he may alleviate the harshness of the statement
55 16| delivered into His hand, He allows no exception (in respect)
56 | amongst
57 30| Son, therefore, to die, amounted to His being forsaken by
58 15| the description in still ampler terms: "Who only hath immortality,
59 12| He is either deceiving or amusing us in speaking plurally,
60 8 | therefore, the form of these analogies, I confess that I call God
61 21| IT IS SHEWN, BY A MINUTE ANALYSIS OF ST. JOHN'S GOSPEL, THAT
62 5 | Artificer, but actually animated out of His substance. Observe,
63 22| whose doctrine does He announce, at which all were astonished?
64 26| the angel Another when he announces Him as "about to be born,"
65 1 | bear for a short time the annoyance of a prison; on which occasion,
66 30| further, I shall find means of answering you with greater stringency,
67 31| as it does) that the Law anti the Prophets lasted until
68 24| THIS TEXT EXPLAINED IN AN ANTI-PRAXEAN SENSE.~But there were some
69 31| Away, then, with those "Antichrists who deny the Father and
70 8 | the fountain, or as the apex of the ray is third from
71 14| speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, that is to say, in truth,
72 15| was invisible before His appearance in the flesh; so that He
73 12| light." Immediately there appears the Word, "that true light,
74 27| they proceed from Him and appertain to Him. However, another
75 29| subject that which is fairly applicable to it; so, on the other
76 26| as He says it had been appointed to Himself by the Father.
77 22| the Pharisees sent men to apprehend Him, He says: "Yet a little
78 15| the light which no man can approach unto." It was of Him, too,
79 11| and the Same. So absurd arid misleading a statement would
80 16| should have shut up the ark after Noah had entered it;
81 15| I fail in resolving this article (of our faith) by passages
82 5 | only made by a rational Artificer, but actually animated out
83 30| It is the Son, too, who ascends to the heights of heaven,
84 30| RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, HIS ASCENSION, SESSION AT THE FATHER'S
85 15| relation and condition) which I ascribe to the Son. Behold, then,
86 28| other God is implied, if he ascribes to the Father this name
87 14| when the Father is set aside in His own invisibility.
88 23| of His own very self, by asking it of the Father, since
89 19| even though the apostle asks, "Who hath known the mind
90 1 | here also, while many were asleep in their simplicity of doctrine;
91 2 | form; not in power, but in aspect; yet of one substance, and
92 2 | these degrees and forms and aspects are reckoned, under the
93 21| which is in heaven." By asserting all this, He determined
94 23| Him." So, again, in that asseveration, "I have both glorified,
95 31| the same as the Father, by assigning to Them things which are
96 22| might have rendered some assistance to their opinion. Unus,
97 29| too, the Father was not associated in suffering with the Son.
98 22| concerning His sheep, and (the assurance) that no man should pluck
99 28| the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that
100 13| perfect knowledge which assures us that the title of God
101 22| announce, at which all were astonished? Was it His own or the Father'
102 14| this, to be sure, is an astonishing thing, that the Father can
103 16| men. and worked, and was athirst, and suffered hunger (in
104 19| pleased; hear ye Him." By thus attaching the Son to Himself, He becomes
105 27| evident, when I ought to be attacking points on which they seek
106 18| Christ. When, therefore, He attested His own unity, the Father
107 21| to Him, except the Father attracted him; whereas every one who
108 26| of God) is not God: these attributes are not substances, but
109 17| XVII. SUNDRY AUGUST TITLES, DESCRIPTIVE OF DEITY,
110 8 | his prolations from their Author, and places them at so great
111 26| slain by the husbandmen, and avenged by the Father. He is also
112 27| However, another refutation awaits them on this point of their
113 26| known to the Father only. He awards the kingdom to His disciples,
114 16| fourth" in the furnace of the Babylonian monarch (although He is
115 19| diviners mad, turning wise men backward, and making their knowledge
116 1 | tempted Christ after John's baptism, he approached Him as "the
117 26| lastly, He commands them to baptize into the Father and the
118 22| in the case of the man barn blind, "that He must do
119 10| things among men. For a barren woman to have a child against
120 13| name of sun from the mere beam. For although I make not
121 22| who hath sent me, and beareth witness of me." Now, if
122 22| at once: "I am one who am bearing witness of myself; and the
123 31| this doctrine of yours bears a likeness) to the Jewish
124 15| like danger to which also befell Peter, and John, and James, (
125 9 | Son, inasmuch as He who begets is one, and He who is begotten
126 | begin
127 21| Word came. "His glory was beheld the glory as of the only-begotten
128 3 | constitute the majority of believers, are startled at the dispensation (
129 31| man has not the Son, who believes Him to be any other than
130 11| own truth, was He afraid. Believing Him, therefore, to be the
131 3 | moreover, there be a son belonging to him whose monarchy it
132 6 | and all things) which are beneath the sky, I was by, arranging
133 1 | the acknowledgment, had bestowed his peace on the churches
134 28| God of Jesus Christ, the bestower of spiritual gifts. And
135 29| in our suffering, only He bestows on us the power and capacity
136 23| the heart of Judas was the betrayal, not of the Son, but of
137 23| the Son of man, that was betrayed, as the Scripture says afterwards: "
138 11| both the Word and God. I bid you also observe, that on
139 16| thirst, and tears, and actual birth and real death, and in respect
140 29| the human. Nay, but you do blaspheme; because you allege not
141 22| into the world, that He blasphemeth, because He said, I am the
142 29| SOLELY OR WITH ANOTHER. BLASPHEMOUS CONCLUSIONS SPRING FROM
143 21| inasmuch as "flesh and blood had not revealed it to him"
144 28| also to raise up our mortal bodies," must certainly be, as
145 7 | Spirit?" For Spirit has a bodily substance of its own kind,
146 21| hath sent me, hath also borne witness of me." But He at
147 23| however, that God is in the bottomless depths, and exists everywhere;
148 26| have been from His very boyhood: "Wist ye not," says He, "
149 28| Anointed. John, moreover, brands that man as "a liar" who "
150 31| distinction which you are far breaking down? What need would there
151 26| XXVI. A BRIEF REFERENCE TO THE GOSPELS
152 21| Him, not only because He broke the Sabbath, but also because
153 23| when about to raise her brother from the dead, the Lord
154 1 | now, in the day when all bundles of tares shall be gathered
155 1 | had given his body to be burned, it would have profiled
156 16| called to Moses out of the burning bush; and have appeared
157 1 | stumbling-block shall be burnt up with unquenchable fire.~
158 16| Pilate's judgment-seat, and bury Him in the sepulchre of
159 16| Moses out of the burning bush; and have appeared as "the
160 26| must be about my Father's business?" Satan likewise knew Him
161 14| know Thee," God said, "Thou canst not see my face; for there
162 29| bestows on us the power and capacity of suffering.~
163 10| extravagantly and harshly in our capricious imaginations, we may then
164 18| own unity, the Father took care of the Son's interests,
165 18| Indeed, if you only look carefully at the contexts which follow
166 5 | yourself, this very process is carried on within you by your reason,
167 7 | then afterward begotten, to carry all into effect "When He
168 1 | thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence;
169 10| pretence of the Monarchy, he causes neither to be held and acknowledged,
170 5 | Reason, He was actually causing that to become Word which
171 26| they will wish to raise a cavil; but truth will prevail.
172 27| by a transfiguration and change of substance, it follows
173 27| say, flesh), the one being changed by the other, and a third
174 23| maintenance of so versatile and changeful a God as yours! Therefore
175 26| both before and after that chapter, are only in strict accord
176 1 | He shall give His angels charge concerning thee" referring
177 29| into the Father, you are chargeable with blasphemy against the
178 10| for the Lord." But if we choose to apply this principle
179 31| DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY.~But, (this doctrine of
180 13| For it was only right that Christians should shine in the world
181 28| that ejaculation of the Church to God, "Of a truth, Lord,
182 16| not considering that these circumstances are suitable enough for
183 22| inseparably Two; since, after citing the law when it affirms
184 7 | I designate a Person, I claim for it the name of Son;
185 22| this fate, as if He had claimed to be considered as God
186 14| also the Spirit; and, while claiming one nature for the Father
187 22| AND THE SON. EVEN PRAXEAS' CLASSIC TEXT I AND MY FATHER ARE
188 12| then going to be formed of clay the image and similitude
189 24| of the two Persons in the clearest light, in order that no
190 12| because He had already His Son close at His side, as a second
191 27| Certainly it was by a real clothing of Himself in flesh. For
192 27| doubt are well able to be co-existent. Of them Jesus consists
193 19| THiS UNION OF THE TWO IN CO-OPERATION IS NOT OPPOSED TO THE TRUE
194 16| in paradise towards the coal of the evening, in quest
195 11| ground, who had no form nor comeliness." These are a few testimonies
196 8 | Father; and what He has been commanded by the Father, that also
197 25| Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit." But even if (
198 30| spirit. Indeed, after so commending it, He instantly died; and
199 26| God had forsaken Him. He commends His spirit into the hands
200 24| Himself to be the Father's Commissioner," through whose agency even
201 3 | equally his, by whom it is communicated to the son; and being his,
202 7 | constructed by the Spirit and the communication of Wisdom? Certainly I do.
203 18| readily perceiving this community of the Father's titles in
204 6 | between them implied in the companionship of Wisdom with the Lord. "
205 29| which, after the law, is compatible to the Son (inasmuch as "
206 1 | predecessors in the see, compelled him to recall the pacific
207 3 | monarkia (or Monarchy) was as complete as their pronunciation of
208 16| take upon Him man's actual component substances, body and soul,
209 27| mixture, like electrum, composed of gold and silver; and
210 27| only a tertium quid, some composite essence formed out of the
211 19| is equally with Himself comprehended in the same Scriptures.
212 1 | while, with its vitality concealed under a mask, has now broken
213 10| an opinion which the most conceited "Monarchians" maintain.
214 29| WITH ANOTHER. BLASPHEMOUS CONCLUSIONS SPRING FROM PRAXEAS' PREMISES.~
215 21| His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the
216 21| and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death
217 1 | likely I should never have condescended to deal with Him." However,
218 29| is of suffering under the conditions of His existence as God.
219 29| whatever pertains to our own conduct and suffering; not, however,
220 21| on earth, whom Peter had confessed to be the Son of God; and
221 24| Father also, who openly confesses Him from heaven as His Son,
222 1 | inflated with the pride of confessorship simply and solely because
223 26| the other Gospels, which confirm our belief by the Lord's
224 15| out of the New Testament a confirmation of our view, that you may
225 19| their knowledge foolish, and confirming the words of His Son?" as,
226 15| never been seen. The apostle confirms this statement; for, speaking
227 10| world hath God chosen to confound the things which are wise."
228 27| twofold state, which is not confounded, but conjoined in One Person
229 15| and John, and James, (who confronted not the same light) without
230 27| Flesh nor to the Spirit, but confusedly of some third character.
231 13| again, "God standeth in the congregation of gods;" in order that,
232 19| premonitory evidence against the conjectures of the heretics, who maintain
233 27| which is not confounded, but conjoined in One Person Jesus, God
234 25| of the Father's. Thus the connection of the Father in the Son,
235 23| resurrection, and making Him conqueror over death.~
236 1 | and Maximilla, and, in consequence of the acknowledgment, had
237 18| Father and Son; and is consistent with itself. It is clear
238 13| two Gods and two Lords, consistently with your views. God forbid, (
239 19| external things, such as the constituent parts of the world, but
240 31| DOCTRINE OF THE BLESSED TRINITY CONSTITUTES THE GREAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
241 19| and with Him, did (Wisdom) construct the universe, He not being
242 14| it is not permitted us to contemplate, the sun, in the full amount
243 29| such blasphemy. Let us be content with saving that Christ
244 20| of the many. But in their contention they only act on the principle
245 18| only look carefully at the contexts which follow such statements
246 30| hand of God? where He will continue to sit, until the Father
247 25| the end of John's Gospel, continues to furnish us with statements
248 15| OF THE SON'S VISIBILITY CONTRASTED WITH THE FATHER'S INVISIBILITY.~
249 23| devil wrought against Him contributed nothing to his advantage.
250 15| and the Son who always conversed with men, and the Son who
251 29| Father); since, however, you convert Christ into the Father,
252 27| die, if so be the Word was converted into flesh; because either
253 21| were quite right in their convictions; for He answered Nathanael: "
254 18| IT DOES NOT PRECLUDE THE CORRELATIVE IDEA OF THE SON OF GOD.
255 8 | distinctly two things, but correlatively joined; the fountain and
256 30| extent of death, i.e., in corruption and decay. For the Son,
257 19| Lord, or who hath been His counsellor?" meaning, of course, to
258 14| my face; he gives me his countenance? "My Father," says Christ, "
259 8 | to mould it into its own counterfeit. Was the Word of God put
260 13| and we should become less courageous to endure the martyr's sufferings,
261 6 | GOING FORTH OF WISDOM TO CREATE THE UNIVERSE, ACCORDING
262 12| that executes the order and creates. In what sense, however,
263 28| strengtheneth the thunder, and createth the wind, and declareth
264 5 | yourself, who are a rational creature, as being not only made
265 3 | themselves pre-eminently the credit of being worshippers of
266 23| it is because of these crowds that are standing by that
267 23| meaning at the same time to "crown Him with glory and honour,"
268 30| it that He addressed His cry? But this was the voice
269 21| He remarks respecting the cure of the impotent man, "My
270 25| Him, out of love, not from curiosity, nor with Thomas' incredulity.
271 29| death of the cross. For "cursed are they which are hanged
272 6 | in whom He delighted; and daily, too, did I rejoice in His
273 16| in dream, in mirror, in dark saying; ever from the beginning
274 14| we see through a glass, darkly (or enigmatically), but
275 27| was made of the seed of David;" · in which words He will
276 14| He was visible before the days of His flesh, in the way
277 1 | never have condescended to deal with Him." However, he is
278 5 | become Word which He was dealing with in the way of Word
279 30| i.e., in corruption and decay. For the Son, therefore,
280 12| one of us," He is either deceiving or amusing us in speaking
281 13| in determinate and simple declarations? If, indeed, you follow
282 30| the Divine Majesty; the Declarer of the One Monarchy of God,
283 28| and createth the wind, and declareth unto men His Christ." And
284 13| Spirit the third, and Himself declaring and manifesting the Father
285 3 | Unity itself with irrational deductions did not produce heresy,
286 1 | to destroy the truth by defending it. He maintains that there
287 27| Concerning Christ, indeed, I defer what I have to say. (I remark
288 25| are contending against the definite purpose of the Gospel. For
289 13| human teachers, do indeed definitively declare that Two Beings
290 2 | one God, from whom these degrees and forms and aspects are
291 6 | Him; I was by, in whom He delighted; and daily, too, did I rejoice
292 30| sparing Him; "forsook" Him, in delivering Him up. In all other respects
293 25| Gospel, and apply them to demonstrate the identity of the Father
294 11| the Father and the Son are demonstrated to be distinct; I say distinct,
295 18| makes this declaration, He denies not the Son, but says that
296 28| that man as "a liar" who "denieth that Jesus is the Christ;"
297 21| taught. Then, when many departed from Him, and He turned
298 23| God is in the bottomless depths, and exists everywhere;
299 9 | substance, but the Son is a derivation and portion of the whole,
300 4 | DOCTRINE.~But as for me, who derive the Son from no other source
301 30| heights of heaven, and also descends to the inner parts of the
302 15| and he accumulates the description in still ampler terms: "
303 17| XVII. SUNDRY AUGUST TITLES, DESCRIPTIVE OF DEITY, APPLIED TO THE
304 22| for none of which did He deserve to be stoned. And to prevent
305 22| prevent their thinking Him deserving of this fate, as if He had
306 14| on the same occasion, he desires to see His face, which he
307 24| So he is reproved for desiring to see the Father, as if
308 1 | had issued, as well as to desist from his purpose of acknowledging
309 17| especially been committed the destiny of that nation; and is likewise "
310 1 | Sometimes his aim has been to destroy the truth by defending it.
311 13| allegories and parables, but in determinate and simple declarations?
312 18| of Scripture, whenever it determines God to be but One; as if
313 18| by it. For, without any detriment to the Son, it is quite
314 10| Now all this must be the device of the devil this excluding
315 26| This, accordingly, the devils also acknowledge Him to
316 7 | God formed by Him first to devise and think out all thinks
317 7 | nor could that possibly be devoid of substance which has proceeded
318 30| Father. The Son, then, both dies and rises again, according
319 9 | same as the Son, since they differ one from the other in the
320 27| Man, being God and Man, differing no doubt according to each
321 9 | of diversity that the Son differs from the Father, but by
322 10| child against nature was no difficulty with God; nor was it for
323 11| in the fulness of their dignity and authority. Still, in
324 29| against the Father, hope to diminish it by this expedient: they
325 29| indeed, fearing to incur direct blasphemy against the Father,
326 26| God is God,) and by not directly naming God, he wished that
327 14| Moses, that Moses actually discerned His face, eye to eye, how
328 23| the evangelist and beloved disciple John knew better than Praxeas;
329 23| how many Persons do you discover, obstinate Praxeas? Are
330 1 | plucked up, having been discovered and exposed by him whose
331 21| had revealed to Peter the discovery which he had made, that
332 16| unworthy of God, in order to discredit the Creator, not considering
333 16| foundation of the course of His dispensations, which He meant to follow
334 11| Jacob, and to restore the dispersed of Israel? I have given
335 10| able to accomplish, and has displayed His ability. Since, therefore,
336 15| passages which may admit of dispute out of the Old Testament,
337 8 | almost swallowed up and dissolved into the rest of matter.
338 8 | places them at so great a distance from Him, that the AEon
339 14| TESTAMENT. ARGUMENTS OF THEIR DISTINCTNESS, THUS SUPPLIED.~Moreover,
340 27| all in one Person, they distinguish two, Father and Son, understanding
341 12| the following text also He distinguishes among the Persons: "So God
342 25| statements of the same kind, distinguishing the Father and the Son,
343 2 | is still guarded, which distributes the Unity into a Trinity,
344 8 | connected steps, does not at all disturb the Monarchy, whilst it
345 2 | instruction and protection of divers persons; were it only that
346 3 | does not forthwith become divided and cease to be a monarchy,
347 8 | expresses it. Valentinus divides and separates his prolations
348 19| of the liars, and maketh diviners mad, turning wise men backward,
349 21| alone;" the Father did not divulge the secrets of His own bosom.
350 21| the fig-tree, therefore dose thou believe?'' And in the
351 22| sight, He said to him, "Dost thou believe in the Son
352 24| quickeneth (the dead), so also doth the Son;" and again, "If
353 1 | for the devil at Rome: he drove away prophecy, and he brought
354 11| as if He were a root in a dry ground, who had no form
355 11| TRINITY.~It will be your duty, however, to adduce your
356 24| doctrine, that the Father who dwells in the Son makes Himself
357 3 | over and above it: when, e.g., some other god is introduced
358 7 | against, intelligible to the ear, but for the rest a sort
359 13| sufferings, from which an easy escape would everywhere
360 14| invisible. When Moses in Egypt desired to see the face
361 28| of the Apostles in that ejaculation of the Church to God, "Of
362 | elsewhere
363 11| that He is Himself both the Emitter and the Emitted, both He
364 27| whose "name should be called Emmanuel which, being interpreted,
365 15| both. There is a certain emphatic saying by John: "No man
366 24| what view else did He so emphatically dwell on this point, if
367 3 | much a monarchy (or sole empire), since it is held together
368 27| issues)of two and three, they endeavour to interpret this distinction
369 29| fellow-suffering," but the endurance of suffering along with
370 24| order that no wish might be entertained of seeing the Father as
371 22| Two, whom He puts on an equality and unites in one. He therefore
372 13| sufferings, from which an easy escape would everywhere lie open
373 27| each substance in its own especial property, inasmuch as the
374 11| the other passages also establish each one of several Persons
375 10| the relations which God establishes, them does He also guard.
376 | etc
377 23| things were said to Him, the evangelist and beloved disciple John
378 16| towards the coal of the evening, in quest of Adam; and should
379 7 | The father took pleasure evermore in Him, who equally rejoiced
380 29| but only in the Son, it evidently could not have suffered,
381 9 | more than these, cometh of evil."~
382 5 | V. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SON OR WORD OF GOD
383 15| the additional assertion, ex abundanti as it were: "No
384 17| Most High, in that He is "exalted at the right hand of God,"
385 2 | truth is condemned without examination, and simply prejudged; especially
386 15| belongs? Let us, in short, examine who it is whom the apostles
387 5 | respecting the Son should be examined, as to whether He exists,
388 27| inseparable union as (by the examples) of the sun and the ray,
389 18| actually another, after excepting Him from others. Suppose
390 30| about that? You have Him exclaiming in the midst of His passion: "
391 30| of meeting you with the exclamation of the Lord Himself, so
392 10| device of the devil this excluding and severing one from the
393 26| He cannot be God Himself (exclusively), but so far God as He is
394 21| hath given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He
395 3 | thinking. I prefer your exercising yourself on the meaning
396 27| Flesh, on the other hand, exhibited the affections which belong
397 28| Christ." Wherefore he also exhorts us to believe in the name
398 22| goes on to explain in an exoteric manner, that "they understood
399 22| for to this day the Jews expect not the Father Himself,
400 24| Philip, who, roused with the expectation of seeing the Father, and
401 29| hope to diminish it by this expedient: they grant us so far that
402 18| multitude of false gods being expelled by the unity of the Godhead,
403 9 | extolling the Monarchy at the expense of the Economy) they contend
404 16| Son, who was one day to experience even human sufferings hunger
405 15| imperilling his sight that he experienced that light. A like danger
406 14| Scripture, according to our exposition of it, were inapplicable
407 9 | THE CATHOLIC RULE OF FAITH EXPOUNDED IN SOME OF ITS POINTS. ESPECIALLY
408 13| especially when they are not expressed in allegories and parables,
409 30| cannot undergo the full extent of death, i.e., in corruption
410 10| do it. He might also have extinguished Praxeas and all other heretics
411 9 | obliged to say this, when (extolling the Monarchy at the expense
412 10| apply this principle so extravagantly and harshly in our capricious
413 26| not deny the relation. He exults in spirit when He says to
414 14| for instance Isaiah and Ezekiel), and yet they did not die.
415 14| saw God according to the faculties of men, but not in accordance
416 14| suppose.) Or what is that fade of God, the sight of which
417 28| be sure, is the man who fails to perceive that by the
418 29| the subject that which is fairly applicable to it; so, on
419 25| Himself as the Father to so faithful a woman (as Mary Magdalene)
420 1 | Here the old serpent has fallen out with himself, since,
421 30| THE TRUE MEANING THEREOF FATAL TO PRAXEAS. SO TOO, THE
422 22| thinking Him deserving of this fate, as if He had claimed to
423 15| saying: "Of whom are the fathers, and of whom as concerning
424 29| Son. The heretics, indeed, fearing to incur direct blasphemy
425 23| meaning: "Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knew
426 29| which he makes not without feeling the weight of it that "Christ
427 16| knew full well what human feelings and affections were, intending
428 4 | put all enemies under His feet;" following of course the
429 29| the Father is only His fellow-sufferer. But how absurd are they
430 28| Jesus Christ, that "our fellowship may be with the Father,
431 13| follow after Thee, bound in fetters; and they shall worship
432 20| it also does against the fewer.~
433 21| said, I saw thee under the fig-tree, therefore dose thou believe?''
434 4 | employ. But it remains so firm and stable in its own state,
435 7 | from Himself He became His first-begotten Son, because begotten before
436 5 | first lay this down (as a fixed principle) that even then
437 1 | brought in heresy; he put to flight the Paraclete, and he crucified
438 8 | your stand with me, and flinch not. If He was put forth,
439 8 | like manner the Trinity, flowing down from the Father through
440 29| mire and mud, alhough it flows from the fountain identical
441 10| furnished man with wings to fly with, just as He gave wings
442 13| One Lord, and it must have followed that the Father should Himself
443 13| Writings, especially we who are followers of the Paraclete, not of
444 23| separate gods, as you are so fond of throwing out against
445 1 | that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone." Or perhaps,
446 13| consistently with your views. God forbid, (is my reply.) For we,
447 1 | which he was at the moment forging his temptation: "If thou
448 4 | remark (I wish also to be formally) made by me with respect
449 3 | monarchy it is, it does not forthwith become divided and cease
450 16| the beginning laying the foundation of the course of His dispensations,
451 6 | and when He secured the fountains, (and all things) which
452 21| XXI. IN THIS AND THE FOUR FOLLOWING CHAPTERS IT IS
453 16| and have appeared as "the fourth" in the furnace of the Babylonian
454 3 | another dominion, which has a framework and a state peculiar to
455 1 | has now broken out with fresh life. But again shall it
456 14| a man speaketh unto his friend; " just as Jacob also says, "
457 19| afterwards: "Who else is it that frustrateth the tokens of the liars,
458 14| promise which was afterwards fulfilled in the retirement of the
459 27| nature. But by a transfer of functions, the Spirit would have done
460 16| appeared as "the fourth" in the furnace of the Babylonian monarch (
461 10| could, if He had liked, have furnished man with wings to fly with,
462 19| am the First, and to all futurity I AM." The Word, no doubt,
463 19| except "alone" from all other gads. But (if we are to follow
464 28| Lord Jesus Christ. To the Galatians he declares himself to be "
465 7 | His own form and glorious garb, His own sound and vocal
466 22| subject in the masculine gender. He accordingly says Unum,
467 20| making for them) in the general mass, they pertinaciously
468 5 | in uttering speech you generate thought. The word is itself
469 6 | is to say, He created and generated me in His own intelligence.
470 30| the Father the promised gift, and has shed it forth,
471 22| and he saw it, and was glad," He certainly proves that
472 7 | rejoiced with a reciprocal gladness in the Father's presence: "
473 3 | myself, however, if I have gleaned any knowledge of either
474 24| His Son, and as His Son glorifies Him. "This is my beloved
475 24| we know not whither Thou goest; and how can we know the
476 11| at the same time to have gone out from Himself as) that
477 7 | of the mouth, and (as the grammarians teach) air when struck against,
478 13| Holy Ghost. That is a still grander statement which you will
479 22| whom they were ignorant of. Granted that "if they had known
480 2 | the dispensation is still guarded, which distributes the Unity
481 8 | taught by the truth, the guardian of the Unity, wherein we
482 8 | whilst it at the same time guards the state of the Economy.~
483 29| respecting the Son, we are not guilty of blasphemy against the
484 1 | error; and there is his own handwriting in evidence remaining among
485 29| cursed are they which are hanged on a tree," a curse which,
486 9 | thing is made is another. Happily the Lord Himself employs
487 10| Of course nothing is "too hard for the Lord." But if we
488 13| you are so venturesome and harsh, reflect a while; and that
489 10| principle so extravagantly and harshly in our capricious imaginations,
490 29| that he may alleviate the harshness of the statement by the
491 19| declaration of His they will hastily pervert into an argument
492 13| loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: therefore God,
493 16| judgment, throwing down the haughty tower, and dividing the
494 11| accumulation of them in the various heads of our subject, as we in
495 23| thank Thee that Thou always hearest me; it is because of these
496 21| I say unto you, He that heareth my words, and believeth
497 30| Economy, to every one who hears and receives the words of
498 5 | even Genesis opens thus in Hebrew: "In the beginning God made
499 1 | Matthew; away with Luke! Why heed their words? In spite of
500 30| too, who ascends to the heights of heaven, and also descends